This blog is written by author-activist David H. Albert, his daughter Princeton University graduate student Aliyah Shanti, and friends. Begun in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami and their work in south India in response, it chronicles visits to the offices of Land for the Tillers Freedom (LAFTI) in Kuthur, Tamil Nadu, and the work of Gandhian land-reform and ecological activists Krishnammal and S. Jagannathan. Please visit the Friends of LAFTI Foundation site at www.friendsoflafti.org

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Thank you David and Aliyah for keeping this blog. We received a link from our local homeschooling link and started reading it right away. We love getting the "real" news instead of the Media propaganda here is the US. I especially loved the news on the Muslim community and their outpouring of assistance.

We will send good energy your way. Thanks for you strength and courage and honesty in this difficult time. Ronda Coleman, Mechanicsville MD

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Krishnammal and S. Jagannathan are the subjects of the new oral biography
The Color of Freedom by Laura Coppo, edited
by David H. Albert. All proceeds from the sale of the book through David Albert's website go to support LAFTIâs work.

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